The Arts Institute (formerly Peninsula Arts) operates from within the Faculty of Arts and serves as the Arts and Culture programming umbrella organisation for the
University of Plymouth
The University of Plymouth is a public research university based predominantly in Plymouth, England, where the main campus is located, but the university has campuses and affiliated colleges across South West England. With students, it is the ...
. The year round public programme includes exhibitions, music, film, talks and performing arts.
Its aim is to provide a prestigious and wide-ranging series of events which open up the arts and university to the people of Plymouth, the South West and visitors to the region.
The
University of Plymouth Contemporary Music Festival is an annual event hosted with the University of Plymouth Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Research, and occurs in February.
Venues and locations
The Levinsky Gallery is the main hub for The Arts Institute, and the largest contemporary art gallery in the south west of England. It is located inside the
Roland Levinsky Building at the university. Admission is free but may be restricted during events.
The House is another building at the university located behind the Roland Levinsky Building, which is used for theatre and dance performances, and the Jill Graigie Cinema which is used for showing films and lectures at the university.
Notable performances
* Rosemary Johnson, a disabled violinist played music using an
EEG
Electroencephalography (EEG) is a method to record an electrogram of the spontaneous electrical activity of the brain. The biosignals detected by EEG have been shown to represent the postsynaptic potentials of pyramidal neurons in the neocortex ...
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* In 2015 a slime mould and a lecturer played a piano duet based on the mould's movements.
* In 2018, brainwaves recorded during seizures were turned into music.
References
External links
The Arts Institute
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